Ooo Shiny Gmail

Well I was reading about how themes are out for Gmail now and figured I would check it out on my Gmail account, and sure enough there it was! The cool new tab in settings called themes!





Supposedly I am one of the lucky ones, because it has not been rolled out completely yet

Also, some of the picture themes change based on your location and time! Very cool Google!

But here are some of my favorite themes!

Planets



Summer Ocean

Best...Video...EVER!

Not much can be said except that this is a super sweet video!

YouTube Trick

Well I figured I'd write a short post now about a little trick to make your YouTube viewing experience that much better. And it's only 7 characters!

1) Take your YouTube link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh80THugCjw

2) Add this string of characters to the end, without the quotes of course

"&fmt=18"

3) Your finished link should look like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh80THugCjw&fmt=18

Now here's the video of those links which is our half time show performance at Stanford, sucks

With "&fmt=18"



Without "&fmt=18"



And there you go, a quick and easy way to watch YouTube videos in Higher Quality!

Ahh the Weekender...

Well it's that time of the year and I actually get to go this time, so I will be gone starting tomorrow until late Sunday night so sadly this means I can't really blog :( But I can't wait to blog more when I get back.

Fight on!

Beat the Farm!

stupid farm...

Goodbye Dear Friend

Well sadly it's the end of the road for the amazing Mars Phoenix Lander :( Sad news indeed for such an amazing journey. Finding the water on Mars was only one of many accomplishments, but I believe posting one of it's final tweets is all but necessary:

"[From Phoenix mission ops: Phoenix is no longer communicating with Earth. We'll continue to listen, but it's likely its mission has ended.]"

There's also another blog post from Engadget



More information can be found here

Good bye Phoenix Lander, you did an amazing job until those damn Tranformers appeared. You will be in the hearts of millions.

Goodbye

So I thought Ravenholm was bad...

So I'm walking along with my new pheropod! Oh yay. Ya basically now all the antlions treat me as their awesome leader and basically do my busy work for me, aka killing the combine. I'm told I have to go to this Nova Prospekt place, after Ravenholm how bad could it be?!? So for one it's supposedly well it is a super high security prison and ya I have to kill all the defenses, but I have my awesome antlion buddies who just do my bidding even if they die doing it, oh and they keep respawning :) I finally get in but sadly my antlion buddies cant follow me :(

I'm walking through ready to kill some combine and own peoples, but I just keep walking thru. Dead people lay of the ground, I think maybe they're zombies, nope they're dead. Keep on walking, alone, all...alone. Turns out this place gives me more of the creeps because it's you and just you that's it. The occasional turret who shoots at you because they're "automated" ya sure automated turrets, hmm doubt it but ok. So ya I could have a party with myself in this place, it's just freaking empty. What scares me most is just that sense of anticipation that oh look I turn a corner there's something to kill, but turning the corner is when I get freaked. So corner after corner, no freaking guys to kill.

Next however I jump out of my seat because my antlion buds found a way in and they pop out of the ground, next thing I know I've killed 10 of them forgetting they're my friends. Such loyalty these creatures have. I'll leave you with the loneliness I felt in Nova Prospekt, you, alone, you yourself and you? Ya it's just you maybe a "automated turret" or your antlion "friends" but ya just you. Have fun being lonely. I'll comment more on my journey later!

Ravenholm...Part 2

Well I leave Ravenholm, well the main part to follow Mr. creepy guy into the best place to go to avoid zombies. Well let's just say I was extremely sarcastic because he leads me into a freaking graveyard!!! First thing that I see is about 6 spider zombies hauling ass onto of a cliff towards us, but hey they're on a cliff, they can't reach us. How wrong I was! They hurt badly both physically but emotionally. Once those buggers were finished off I got to experience more fun, mobs of zombies! Oh yay like 20 zombies coming towards you, kinda freaky, but anyways I created a game to see how many zombies I could kill with 1 saw blade shot, my record is 5 so far. But anyways more zombies keep coming to kill me and finally you think you're done but wait, you hear that awful groan of the annoying toxic zombie. I then unleash pretty much all the ammo I have to kill the annoyance and then mr creepy guy tells me go into the mines, it's the way out. Yay the way out!

So in I go, jumping down the cool mine shaft, cause jumping's fun. Gotta be careful though, otherwise you might fall to your death, gotta love that. Anyways I get to the almost bottom and I feel like I'm in a snake pit except with headcrabs! A FREAKING TON OF HEADCRABS! So I basically use all my magnum ammo to pick them off and the jump down trying to avoid these buggers and I finally get out of that part, but wait now I have to swim underwater to who knows where. Well I do it cause it's better than headcrab land and come out to none other than more zombies! WOO! So there's this "mine cart" that has a saw blade attached to it, mr creepy guy ha problems, lots of problems. So basically I kill all of them with no ammo then woo SUNLIGHT! I SEE SUN! Best feeling ever, so that was Ravenholm, scary place, but there's more to the story.

Skip like 2 Chapters

So I'm driving my dune buggy with its laser attachment on the front into a tunnel which usually tells me it's a loading tunnel, but oh god cars are all in front of my blocking my path. Ok no biggy, get out use gravity gun and ready go. Oh wait I hear something, OH %^@$! 4 Freaking Spider Zombies attack me plus crap loads of other zombies! Just when you thought you were zombie free this crap happens! Of course I have unlimited ammo, but no I forget that and end up having to crowbar half of the zombies, which was about 50 in this little area, oh ya its all dark too. And that's basically my zombie adventures so far. I'll keep you posted on any more scary zombie sightings!

Video is UP!

Ya so the video is up, so just scroll down to see it! Quality isn't the best but that can be expected haha